New Ulm weekly review., 1887-12-07
Dlk0Tl KEl S NOTES.

lAAUJR ll6yyO NUt6Ss
a board Of trade has been organized
Ct Huron with w r. Love as presl-
dent.
a writer in Bradstreet's calls atten-
tion to the stupendous fact thaT
when one-third Of the area Of Dakota
8g used for wheat-growing. the crop.
with q smaller average yield per acre
than the territory has ever known,
viii be 36O, GOO, 600 or $40, 600. OOO.
bushels q year.
The secretary OF the interior has re-
versed the decision of thecommission-
er Of the general land Office IN the case.
Of Alvina Yeutsch vs.. Alzina Ryan,,
involving land in the Watertown,
(Dak. district. This gives Miss
sYertsch, who entered the land and
made improvements, authority. to-
take the land.
The event of the season at BIS
marck. was the 8 Rooster banquet
at the Sheridan house. About ONE
hundred citizens, men only, were. pres
ent. Numerous toasts were respond.
ed to and the menu was elaborate.
Judge Tripp has renderedia i,adg
ment at So, 400 for the plaintiff in the
long-drawn-out partnership, litigation
between O. R. Belts and George q.
Letcher of Mitchell, formerly In hard.
ware business.
A party OF surveyors OF the Manito
ba road is now running line from
Halsted, Mimi, the present terminus
OF the Moorhead & Nerthern branch.
to Called donia and thence westward.
Several branches Of Lutherans in
the neighborhood OF Brcokings are
trying to effect a union of sentiment
as we'll as Of church service.
It is generally understood that the
South Dakota conference has decided
to locate their seminary at Brookings,
and the citizens are prepared to vel
come that institution in substan,
tial manner.
The Farmers Mutual Protective
association mailed from Planking.
ton over 1000 drafts, covering all
parts of Dakota, in payment for hail
losses for this year. The total aggre-
gate of these drafts is $lIO.OOO.
This association will make a further
payment Of over $4,000 early this
month.
The Prohibitionists have called
county convention in Huron, for Dec.
l3 to arrange for enforcing the local
option law after Dec. 81. The Pro-
hlbition alliance will immediately is
sue a call for South Dakota Prohibi.
ton conference to be held at Huron
Dec. l5 for the purpose OF organizing
for next years campaign.
The ''snap'' OF the last of Novem,
ber was the coldest ever recorded for
that month.
Mr.. John Gowan and daughter were
asphyxiated by coal gas at Huron.
Mr.. Gowan was dead when found and
the daughter cannot recover.
2. D. Lyon, editor and proprietor
OF Public Opinion, a weekly newspa-
per published in Watertown, had a
suit for criminal libel brought against
him by George E. Taylor. The at.
tack, when published, caused quite a
fiutter in society circles, as Taylor
was employed three years ago as clerk
in the United States land Office at
Watertown and moved IN the best
circles. but like other things excite
ment had about died out, when Tay-
lor arrived from Boston and at once
commenced action.
The Ward county election case,
which arose from throwing out the
vote of Minot precinct in the recent
election upon certain afidavits allee-
ing illegal votes were cast, is before
y Judge Francis on application cf John
B. Welcome of Alinot for a writ Of
mandamus compelling the canvassing
~OsSAS ~ = ASeNSOOiiAOAO tdun canvass
such vote. The case has caused con-
siderable interest from the fact that
the throwing out of the Minot vote
gave q majority in the county for pro-
hibltion, while otherwise license would
have prevailed by $50 majority.
At a meeting of the Dakota Stock
Breeders Association at jamestown,
officers were elected as follows: Pres
ldent, c. j. Alloway, Grand Forks;
vice president, r. G. Haggerty, Aber-
deem; secretary, Oscar p. Kemp,
Watertown; treasurer. A. o. Johnson,
Montrose; directors to fill expired
terms. /. G. Wade, jamestown, and
Thomas David, Mitchell. Watertown
was elected as the place for the next
meeting.
Railway Gazette: In a recent case
Tried at Acuascalienres Mey tho div